Venus is often visible @PurpleRose. Maybe that's what you're thinking of. I got some photos [last year?] when it was really visible in the UK. It's a good washing day here @AuntyRach, but not terribly sunny. It came out for a little while, but the wind means a couple of layers are required unless grafting furiously. Or grafting happily, depending on one's mood.... Make sure you peg it on well. I don't want to have to rescue your smalls later....
I came in for some lunch. A make do type of soup from leftover ham, lentils, onion, a carrot [should have got ex hubby to get some!] and some chopped courgette which was lingering in the freezer. Not bad - could have done with a bit more spice in it. Some CDs now for the machine while I'm out to keep me going until Johnnie at 3pm. Paul Simon, Tom Petty and Andrew Preview. Eclectic if nothing else....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A gorgeous morning here ... so sunny I nearly swapped my light M&S vee neck sweater for a tee shirt, and OH slathered sunscreen on the back of my neck.
More seed sowing today ... French beans (Purple Queen) are now in root trainers in the studio. I'd forgotten to soak the sweet peas so I filled their root trainers and the seeds are soaking to be sown tomorrow. I've also sown basil and French plain leaf parsley in pots indoors. I keep wandering around the veg patch wondering where I'm going to plant everything when it's all ready to go out ... will the broad beans be over by the time the courgettes and squash are too big for the little greenhouse? 🤷♀️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It was a lovely sunny day. This morning I sorted out the compost area and put the rotted stuff where I'm going to plant a climbing rose.
The I started painting the arbour, a light pale sage, found the tin in the understairs cupboard.
Didn't finish as Morrisons sent an email to say my order was ready to pick up. There was quite a lot missing, including flour, loo rolls, tissues, fresh milk, vegetables, fish and frozen meat and fish. They had substituted a few things, plain muffins for cheese ones, ordinary hot cross buns for extra fruity, OK. But they had sent 2 huge pots of cream for 2 little ones and 3 x 4 pint Cravendale milk for 3 x 2 pint bottles, so now I have loads of cream and milk. At least they had fresh strawberries to go with it! I'd ordered what I thought was a punnet but it's a box, didn't notice the weight!
The delivery girl said that there were very few people in the shop and she thought there could be more stuff inside, like fresh fruit and veg and fish. So I went in, no trouble keeping distances. There was fresh milk, fruit, veg, chicken breasts, fish, fruity hot cross buns, loo rolls - everything that was missing from my order except flour. Weird, if it was in the shop why couldn't they have put it in my bags?
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
It rarely comes from the shop you go to @Busy-Lizzie . It comes from a central warehouse. My screen and bench are a 'willow' green too. It sets off the black timber elsewhere. The moss makes a lot of it darker though. Might tart that up a little if it stays dry enough. Rain coming tonight though. Gey windy here and getting windier, but it stayed dry. The thermometer said it reached about 16, but the wind knocked that back. Still needed a couple of layers over my top, even though I was in the shed. It's looking a bit more fit for purpose.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some supermarkets pick from the shop ... pretty sure W’rose here does, the local Morrisons definitely does ... I’ve seen the orders being being picked and when Morrison’s couldn't deliver our order for us the other week we picked it up from the store where it had been picked.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes - some do, and my daughter used to do them, but I think just now, many will be using the method they use for home delivery, just to save everything disappearing from the shop itself. Very difficult for supermarkets , although some seem to be experiencing a drop off - all those clowns who bought a thousand loo rolls and forty tons of cereal and pasta and tinned tomatoes will be eating it for the next three months
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I got some photos [last year?] when it was really visible in the UK.
It's a good washing day here @AuntyRach, but not terribly sunny. It came out for a little while, but the wind means a couple of layers are required unless grafting furiously. Or grafting happily, depending on one's mood....
Make sure you peg it on well. I don't want to have to rescue your smalls later....
I came in for some lunch. A make do type of soup from leftover ham, lentils, onion, a carrot [should have got ex hubby to get some!] and some chopped courgette which was lingering in the freezer. Not bad - could have done with a bit more spice in it.
Some CDs now for the machine while I'm out to keep me going until Johnnie at 3pm. Paul Simon, Tom Petty and Andrew Preview. Eclectic if nothing else....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
More seed sowing today ... French beans (Purple Queen) are now in root trainers in the studio. I'd forgotten to soak the sweet peas so I filled their root trainers and the seeds are soaking to be sown tomorrow. I've also sown basil and French plain leaf parsley in pots indoors. I keep wandering around the veg patch wondering where I'm going to plant everything when it's all ready to go out ... will the broad beans be over by the time the courgettes and squash are too big for the little greenhouse? 🤷♀️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The I started painting the arbour, a light pale sage, found the tin in the understairs cupboard.
Didn't finish as Morrisons sent an email to say my order was ready to pick up. There was quite a lot missing, including flour, loo rolls, tissues, fresh milk, vegetables, fish and frozen meat and fish. They had substituted a few things, plain muffins for cheese ones, ordinary hot cross buns for extra fruity, OK. But they had sent 2 huge pots of cream for 2 little ones and 3 x 4 pint Cravendale milk for 3 x 2 pint bottles, so now I have loads of cream and milk. At least they had fresh strawberries to go with it! I'd ordered what I thought was a punnet but it's a box, didn't notice the weight!
The delivery girl said that there were very few people in the shop and she thought there could be more stuff inside, like fresh fruit and veg and fish. So I went in, no trouble keeping distances. There was fresh milk, fruit, veg, chicken breasts, fish, fruity hot cross buns, loo rolls - everything that was missing from my order except flour. Weird, if it was in the shop why couldn't they have put it in my bags?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My screen and bench are a 'willow' green too. It sets off the black timber elsewhere.
The moss makes a lot of it darker though. Might tart that up a little if it stays dry enough. Rain coming tonight though.
Gey windy here and getting windier, but it stayed dry. The thermometer said it reached about 16, but the wind knocked that back. Still needed a couple of layers over my top, even though I was in the shed. It's looking a bit more fit for purpose.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Very difficult for supermarkets , although some seem to be experiencing a drop off - all those clowns who bought a thousand loo rolls and forty tons of cereal and pasta and tinned tomatoes will be eating it for the next three months
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...